The flip side is that a project that relies on volunteers may alienate more people which it needs to survive. Hell I wouldn't work for the OpenBSD team. You may say, well your skills are rather limited, who needs you? But the DragonFly team is perfectly happy to say, stay out of stuff that's over your head please, and we'll be more than happy to have people work on code cleanups and documentation. And that could in itself be a springboard to getting more involved with a project and making a better product overall.
4.3BSD was the origional. NetBSD was the continuation from that. Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are forks, and DragonFly a fork from FreeBSD 4x. OpenBSD being the most notorious with Theo involved.
As of FreeBSD 5x, the project has taken a very different road than the other BSDs, which is where the DragonFly fork happened. DragonFly however then also decided to take a very different approach to OS archetecture all together. If the NetBSD people are going to find a home similar to their own, then OpenBSD is the easiest route I would think. If they can't put up with Theo, then they're more than smart enough to pick up on the other BSDs as well.
But keep in mind that Open and NetBSD are very different. With years of NetBSD focusing on archetecture agnostic drivers, and OpenBSD focusing on many different security levels, they're very different under the hood.
While disk is always cheaper than memory, I've found that memory has itself become cheap enough to negate adding more swap. Most servers I buy I account for a bit more RAM than normal, only I've found that even base configurations actually have more RAM that is really utilized by the server. For most of us, it's just as easy to spend a bit more money and pile on RAM if swap really becomes an issue.
There is also some obscure place that (at least as of FreeBSD 5x) a minimum of 256Mb of swap should be allocated. My rule of thumb is 256Mb minimum. 2x until 512Mb of RAM. Then just use 1Gb of swap. Really if performace is needed, then thinking about how long it's going to take a server to actually access and suck 1Gb back and forth into memory isn't going to gain you a whole lot I would think.
The interesting thing is not in the cartoons, but in the adult shows I liked as a kid. And the really entertaining thing is that I honestly can't see kids growing up with fond memories of Fear Factor or Survivor. I mean look Hollywood that is strapped for ideas digging up nastalgia gems like the Dukes of Hazard. They're not going to be able to do that in 20 years. I remember as a kid I was happy to have a baby sitter because he would let me watch the A-Team. Was it a dumb show? Yeah sort of, it had it's cheese factor, but it was also inventive in its own way. Many shows now days may not be missing anything concrete, but most certainly seem to be missing that spark that makes them memorable.
Cartoons have lost their bite to some extent though. I loved Animaniacs. Now take Ren and Stimpy. Who's got the guts to show kids that shit now days? And hell that was only like what 15 years ago that show was on? WTF happened to the world?
I've heard similar things bout the younger generation. But I've also heard that the side effect is that they have very low attention spans. When you need 10 things going on at once, it's very easy to get destracted by any one of those 10 things and lack the concentration to do one thing well.
So with web access that puts us back to square one. Do you allow the employee to have a couple things on the web to keep them occupied, or do you feel that the web is going to end up distracting them too much for them to get much work done?
I wonder if kids are going to require so much busy background work without much focus if we're on the road to evolving ourselves to be non-compeditive in the business sphere.
I agree that at a younger age it's all about rage and aggression, but a band can follow two paths after they start to age. First choice is to fizzle out - and a lot do. Second choice is to evolve their sound in something that is just as heavy but is a bit more stylistic than just pounding away. But I'm also assuming that most metal bands wont sell a bizzilion albums like metallica, so who knows; maybe such success really is a killing blow to such music.
I still have nothing but respect for Jason Newstead who thought that spending more time in courtrooms than on the road playing was lame.
I say we have a contest between AMD and Intel to come up with the dumbest name they can think of for a processor, then use that in place of pluton. They've been on quite a streak for years, so it shouldn't be too hard for them to invent a weird sounding BS name that doesn't conflict with anything.
Why are screen magnifiers a part of an office suite anyway? This should be done by the Operating system (windowing system or whatever). You just make the application more complicated and do a piss poor job of really overcomming the problem. For instance you magnify the office suite text, then cut and paste it somewhere else but then have problems reading it because the magnifacation ONLY works for the office suite.
OSX has built in support for screen magnifacation and can read any text you select. I'm pretty sure windows 2000 and higher can do the same.
Google didn't abandon it completely. I use Linux on an AMD64 (read: no flash) and I can download google video's in avi just fine. Not sure what codec it is, but mplayer is okay with it.
Isn't AMD depending on additional cores to beat Intel's performance similar to how Intel's Prescott depended on additional MHz to beat AMD's performance?
Is it to add additional performance? Yes. But keep in mind this has been on AMD's roadmap for years. I recall reading about this before AMD had their first dual core on the market.
If administrators have to resort to the reading the source when something fails, there is a problem.
I've often found this to be sort of a plus in a roundabout way. It seems that OS applications more commonly spit out specific errors about what is wrong into the logs. This often doesn't mean anything to you, but a search often finds someone who did have the same problem and poked through the code to figure it out. When you're an administrator of a criticle system you need it fixed. If MS just gives you "an error occured" message then when push comes to shove, you may very well wish you could just look at the code.
Although I'm pretty far removed from C/C++ now days, I've done search on error messages and come up with the actual code where the program generates it. Some times it's easy enough to tell what conditions are causing the problems without being a programming guru.
It becomes much more relavent when you consider regionalized businesses that cross international borders. Like foodnetwork.ca . If you take out the region, then you often end up with bad compound words, and often dashes in weird spots. For many companies like BMW that have many different languages, it's also much more relavent. Now you could say "who cares" about the weird urls, but how are you ever going to know which is the real BMW site bmw-usa or bmw-america? In theory if the domain has your country extension then it's less likely to be squatted.
A friend of mine has a business and he has completely screwed up spelling of his sites name because all.com variants were taken. I told him he should use.us or.pa.us but he didn't seem to hip on it. Well it's his problem with lost emails not mine.
I have an iAudio and actually I found it's somewhat safer for me personally. First thing is I can put the device somewhere and know where it is. If you get your playlists together it's pretty easy to find the music you want. Digging for tapes or CDs has NEVER struck me as all that safe.
I took the bus recently and ended up smashing the display on my player, which could have been the end of the story if they didn't make a wire remote for it. Turns out that it's pretty much ideal since I drive a stick and can hold the remote and shift the car through town with no fumbling whatsoever. While it may be safer not to use digital audio players at all, I'd say they're at least as safe as CDs. If you had a built in cradle, and controls on the steering wheel it would probably be about as safe as audio gets in a vehicle - doesn't BMW already have that?
I think the acceptance of AMD64 was inevitable once companies like IBM started offering AMD servers. But IBM long term didn't have much of a choice either. In corner A you can get a whitebox that is significantly faster, uses much less power, and utilizes 64bit technology. In the other corner you have the expensive inefficiant intel. With more and more people clamoring that they want AMD it was just a matter of seizing an opportunity, or letting your sale slide to someone else. When even the hand of Dell is forced to sell AMD you know there must be a decent market force there.
In the growing car armor industry that could still be worth looking into. Especially when you consider how light this stuff is compaired to various alternatives.
And then, how is IQ linked with odds of dying early?
It does actually in a way. You see a kid isn't automatically a winner or loser when they're born because they require parents to actually bring the child up. Taking natural parental ability out of the equasion (which we'll say is distributed evenly among all intelligences) you'd probably find intelligent people better able to raise their kids to some degree. Also less intelligent people often have bad habbits (ala drugs) which tend to rub off on their kids which can often lead to people removing themselves from a gene pool early.
Historically it makes sense, but with post industrialization you can see how stupid people are better able to keep reproducing as you stated, because society takes care of them.
I used to order tons of stuff from Amazon. But over time I've noticed problems. Any electronics (yeah I used to get random electronics from Amazon) I can get cheaper and faster from newegg. And some things have a waiting time for a MONTH! What really pisses me off about Amazon is if you order 3 items, then you often end up with 3 shippers and thus 3 times the shipping cost. It's usually cheaper and faster to go to a store on the way home from work. To me amazon had everything right when they did it themselves. Then they turned into this "farm everything out" center that is just for central billing and screwed it all up.
Ebay is still ebay, and if they screw it up, it will be for different reasons.
for the few years preceding this administration. Years ago there were more far thinking companies like Xerox, HP, SGI and Bell Labs, but they got lazy and were under more pressure from shareholders to focus more on short term profits
While I agree that they got lazy, I also believe that the potential for return has been reduced to nearly nothing with the risk of patent infrigements. Consider a research fascility that spends years of work to develop something. The company of yester-year would eventually be able to pull something out of it and maybe make a profit. Now days you'd end up going through an out of control patent minefield. Even if you did find a way to produce something, you're probably going to have to fight multiple broad patents. So who benefits from this? You've made it nearly impossible for research to yeild anything, and yet even if you were to and the research over to the patent holders, usually they're just sitting on broad patents and either not in a position to implement it, or simply incompitant and pattent sitting for lawsuits.
When my kids ask me why all the innovation happens in China, It will be because the lawyers and greedy leechers have managed to strangle such innovation here which can only happen with research.
I think you'll still end up with the same problems though. Where does firefox keep it's list of trusts? In the registry, or a config file? People will want to develop/install plugins that aren't signed so you'll need to be able to make exceptions. Where will the settings for the exceptions be stored? In the registry or config file?
I think this just gives you a false sense of security. If you're OS were secure and you knew for a fact that no one else could ever write to the firefox config files or the registry, you could sign things just fine. But this isn't a man in the middle attack, but more like a "man in the backroom" attack. And that's exactly what this spywhere does.
Sites that use some of the 'old' IE6 hacks to make stuff work, will break
--- Actually, that might be a good thing
Depends. I got fustrated with IE and ended up using the CSS underscore hack. IE7 will ignore this, and in theory render pages in a standards compliant way. So it will still work just fine. Guess I picked the right hack.
I've tried all three systems (and I'm somewhat familiar with source systems as I'm and avid FreeBSD user, and usee Gentoo as well). Tried Fink but couldn't get it to work. Tried drawinports but had some problems - can't recall what they were. Tried Fink again, couldn't get it to work. I then tried pkgsrc. I was "fortunate" because I formated using UFS, although I now know that performance sucks using UFS on a mac so I now use case sensitive HFS. Anyway pkgsrc has a lot of packages to be sure, and 50% of them don't compile on my G3 & G4. I hung in there for quite a while, figuring it would be a good system to know so I could get into DragonFly BSD but it just got fustrating. Tried Fink again, but rdesktop wasn't in the stable section. Eventually I went back to darwinports.
Darwinports may not have the most, or the most up-to-date packages out there. But they usually work, and seriously I'm just happy to even get that now. Darwinports is ungodly messy, and occasionally a compile can completely hang with no explanations but out of the three systems it will be the one I'm using for a while - and I breathe a sigh of releif to know that it's only opendarwin closing shop.
While it's true that most of the market isn't concerned with power, that doesn't mean they aren't painting themselves into a corner. Power consumption is one factor, but as these cards require huge ammounts of power, they also need to dissapate huge ammounts of heat.
Now to play the latest games you need a minum requirement for a card that requires a leaf blower attached to cool it. So lets see here, they've got power hungry computers, that are loud as hell to power PC games that are starting to struggle with stagnation. Each one of those might just be enough to shave off another fraction of the people willing to put up with it. Now hardcore gammers will again spend any ammount of money and put up with any ammount of heat their computer puts off, but sooner or later the industry may have to wake up and realize that although hardcore gamers give them a lot of money; with their astronomical development costs (and only getting more expensive) they need to bring in regular people who might not be willing to put up with it.
Now with all that said, and considering that I doubt the nextgen Nintendo will use a fraction of the power, will probably be near silent, and will be much less expensive - I might start taking a deeper look into things if I were the PC game industry (that industry being Software and Hardware together).
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Umm... what's a wocket?
something elmer fudd uses to get to the moon?
The flip side is that a project that relies on volunteers may alienate more people which it needs to survive. Hell I wouldn't work for the OpenBSD team. You may say, well your skills are rather limited, who needs you? But the DragonFly team is perfectly happy to say, stay out of stuff that's over your head please, and we'll be more than happy to have people work on code cleanups and documentation. And that could in itself be a springboard to getting more involved with a project and making a better product overall.
4.3BSD was the origional. NetBSD was the continuation from that. Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are forks, and DragonFly a fork from FreeBSD 4x. OpenBSD being the most notorious with Theo involved.
As of FreeBSD 5x, the project has taken a very different road than the other BSDs, which is where the DragonFly fork happened. DragonFly however then also decided to take a very different approach to OS archetecture all together. If the NetBSD people are going to find a home similar to their own, then OpenBSD is the easiest route I would think. If they can't put up with Theo, then they're more than smart enough to pick up on the other BSDs as well.
But keep in mind that Open and NetBSD are very different. With years of NetBSD focusing on archetecture agnostic drivers, and OpenBSD focusing on many different security levels, they're very different under the hood.
While disk is always cheaper than memory, I've found that memory has itself become cheap enough to negate adding more swap. Most servers I buy I account for a bit more RAM than normal, only I've found that even base configurations actually have more RAM that is really utilized by the server. For most of us, it's just as easy to spend a bit more money and pile on RAM if swap really becomes an issue.
There is also some obscure place that (at least as of FreeBSD 5x) a minimum of 256Mb of swap should be allocated. My rule of thumb is 256Mb minimum. 2x until 512Mb of RAM. Then just use 1Gb of swap. Really if performace is needed, then thinking about how long it's going to take a server to actually access and suck 1Gb back and forth into memory isn't going to gain you a whole lot I would think.
The interesting thing is not in the cartoons, but in the adult shows I liked as a kid. And the really entertaining thing is that I honestly can't see kids growing up with fond memories of Fear Factor or Survivor. I mean look Hollywood that is strapped for ideas digging up nastalgia gems like the Dukes of Hazard. They're not going to be able to do that in 20 years. I remember as a kid I was happy to have a baby sitter because he would let me watch the A-Team. Was it a dumb show? Yeah sort of, it had it's cheese factor, but it was also inventive in its own way. Many shows now days may not be missing anything concrete, but most certainly seem to be missing that spark that makes them memorable.
Cartoons have lost their bite to some extent though. I loved Animaniacs. Now take Ren and Stimpy. Who's got the guts to show kids that shit now days? And hell that was only like what 15 years ago that show was on? WTF happened to the world?
I've heard similar things bout the younger generation. But I've also heard that the side effect is that they have very low attention spans. When you need 10 things going on at once, it's very easy to get destracted by any one of those 10 things and lack the concentration to do one thing well.
So with web access that puts us back to square one. Do you allow the employee to have a couple things on the web to keep them occupied, or do you feel that the web is going to end up distracting them too much for them to get much work done?
I wonder if kids are going to require so much busy background work without much focus if we're on the road to evolving ourselves to be non-compeditive in the business sphere.
Heavy metal is a young man's sport.
Tell that to Cannibal Corpse or Judas Priest. =)
I agree that at a younger age it's all about rage and aggression, but a band can follow two paths after they start to age. First choice is to fizzle out - and a lot do. Second choice is to evolve their sound in something that is just as heavy but is a bit more stylistic than just pounding away. But I'm also assuming that most metal bands wont sell a bizzilion albums like metallica, so who knows; maybe such success really is a killing blow to such music.
I still have nothing but respect for Jason Newstead who thought that spending more time in courtrooms than on the road playing was lame.
I say we have a contest between AMD and Intel to come up with the dumbest name they can think of for a processor, then use that in place of pluton. They've been on quite a streak for years, so it shouldn't be too hard for them to invent a weird sounding BS name that doesn't conflict with anything.
Why are screen magnifiers a part of an office suite anyway? This should be done by the Operating system (windowing system or whatever). You just make the application more complicated and do a piss poor job of really overcomming the problem. For instance you magnify the office suite text, then cut and paste it somewhere else but then have problems reading it because the magnifacation ONLY works for the office suite.
OSX has built in support for screen magnifacation and can read any text you select. I'm pretty sure windows 2000 and higher can do the same.
Google didn't abandon it completely. I use Linux on an AMD64 (read: no flash) and I can download google video's in avi just fine. Not sure what codec it is, but mplayer is okay with it.
Isn't AMD depending on additional cores to beat Intel's performance similar to how Intel's Prescott depended on additional MHz to beat AMD's performance?
Is it to add additional performance? Yes. But keep in mind this has been on AMD's roadmap for years. I recall reading about this before AMD had their first dual core on the market.
If administrators have to resort to the reading the source when something fails, there is a problem.
I've often found this to be sort of a plus in a roundabout way. It seems that OS applications more commonly spit out specific errors about what is wrong into the logs. This often doesn't mean anything to you, but a search often finds someone who did have the same problem and poked through the code to figure it out. When you're an administrator of a criticle system you need it fixed. If MS just gives you "an error occured" message then when push comes to shove, you may very well wish you could just look at the code.
Although I'm pretty far removed from C/C++ now days, I've done search on error messages and come up with the actual code where the program generates it. Some times it's easy enough to tell what conditions are causing the problems without being a programming guru.
It becomes much more relavent when you consider regionalized businesses that cross international borders. Like foodnetwork.ca . If you take out the region, then you often end up with bad compound words, and often dashes in weird spots. For many companies like BMW that have many different languages, it's also much more relavent. Now you could say "who cares" about the weird urls, but how are you ever going to know which is the real BMW site bmw-usa or bmw-america? In theory if the domain has your country extension then it's less likely to be squatted.
.com variants were taken. I told him he should use .us or .pa.us but he didn't seem to hip on it. Well it's his problem with lost emails not mine.
A friend of mine has a business and he has completely screwed up spelling of his sites name because all
Not to mention phishing schemes.
I have an iAudio and actually I found it's somewhat safer for me personally. First thing is I can put the device somewhere and know where it is. If you get your playlists together it's pretty easy to find the music you want. Digging for tapes or CDs has NEVER struck me as all that safe.
I took the bus recently and ended up smashing the display on my player, which could have been the end of the story if they didn't make a wire remote for it. Turns out that it's pretty much ideal since I drive a stick and can hold the remote and shift the car through town with no fumbling whatsoever. While it may be safer not to use digital audio players at all, I'd say they're at least as safe as CDs. If you had a built in cradle, and controls on the steering wheel it would probably be about as safe as audio gets in a vehicle - doesn't BMW already have that?
I think the acceptance of AMD64 was inevitable once companies like IBM started offering AMD servers. But IBM long term didn't have much of a choice either. In corner A you can get a whitebox that is significantly faster, uses much less power, and utilizes 64bit technology. In the other corner you have the expensive inefficiant intel. With more and more people clamoring that they want AMD it was just a matter of seizing an opportunity, or letting your sale slide to someone else. When even the hand of Dell is forced to sell AMD you know there must be a decent market force there.
In the growing car armor industry that could still be worth looking into. Especially when you consider how light this stuff is compaired to various alternatives.
And then, how is IQ linked with odds of dying early?
It does actually in a way. You see a kid isn't automatically a winner or loser when they're born because they require parents to actually bring the child up. Taking natural parental ability out of the equasion (which we'll say is distributed evenly among all intelligences) you'd probably find intelligent people better able to raise their kids to some degree. Also less intelligent people often have bad habbits (ala drugs) which tend to rub off on their kids which can often lead to people removing themselves from a gene pool early.
Historically it makes sense, but with post industrialization you can see how stupid people are better able to keep reproducing as you stated, because society takes care of them.
I used to order tons of stuff from Amazon. But over time I've noticed problems. Any electronics (yeah I used to get random electronics from Amazon) I can get cheaper and faster from newegg. And some things have a waiting time for a MONTH! What really pisses me off about Amazon is if you order 3 items, then you often end up with 3 shippers and thus 3 times the shipping cost. It's usually cheaper and faster to go to a store on the way home from work. To me amazon had everything right when they did it themselves. Then they turned into this "farm everything out" center that is just for central billing and screwed it all up.
Ebay is still ebay, and if they screw it up, it will be for different reasons.
for the few years preceding this administration. Years ago there were more far thinking companies like Xerox, HP, SGI and Bell Labs, but they got lazy and were under more pressure from shareholders to focus more on short term profits
While I agree that they got lazy, I also believe that the potential for return has been reduced to nearly nothing with the risk of patent infrigements. Consider a research fascility that spends years of work to develop something. The company of yester-year would eventually be able to pull something out of it and maybe make a profit. Now days you'd end up going through an out of control patent minefield. Even if you did find a way to produce something, you're probably going to have to fight multiple broad patents. So who benefits from this? You've made it nearly impossible for research to yeild anything, and yet even if you were to and the research over to the patent holders, usually they're just sitting on broad patents and either not in a position to implement it, or simply incompitant and pattent sitting for lawsuits.
When my kids ask me why all the innovation happens in China, It will be because the lawyers and greedy leechers have managed to strangle such innovation here which can only happen with research.
I think you'll still end up with the same problems though. Where does firefox keep it's list of trusts? In the registry, or a config file? People will want to develop/install plugins that aren't signed so you'll need to be able to make exceptions. Where will the settings for the exceptions be stored? In the registry or config file?
I think this just gives you a false sense of security. If you're OS were secure and you knew for a fact that no one else could ever write to the firefox config files or the registry, you could sign things just fine. But this isn't a man in the middle attack, but more like a "man in the backroom" attack. And that's exactly what this spywhere does.
Sites that use some of the 'old' IE6 hacks to make stuff work, will break
--- Actually, that might be a good thing
Depends. I got fustrated with IE and ended up using the CSS underscore hack. IE7 will ignore this, and in theory render pages in a standards compliant way. So it will still work just fine. Guess I picked the right hack.
I've tried all three systems (and I'm somewhat familiar with source systems as I'm and avid FreeBSD user, and usee Gentoo as well). Tried Fink but couldn't get it to work. Tried drawinports but had some problems - can't recall what they were. Tried Fink again, couldn't get it to work. I then tried pkgsrc. I was "fortunate" because I formated using UFS, although I now know that performance sucks using UFS on a mac so I now use case sensitive HFS. Anyway pkgsrc has a lot of packages to be sure, and 50% of them don't compile on my G3 & G4. I hung in there for quite a while, figuring it would be a good system to know so I could get into DragonFly BSD but it just got fustrating. Tried Fink again, but rdesktop wasn't in the stable section. Eventually I went back to darwinports.
Darwinports may not have the most, or the most up-to-date packages out there. But they usually work, and seriously I'm just happy to even get that now. Darwinports is ungodly messy, and occasionally a compile can completely hang with no explanations but out of the three systems it will be the one I'm using for a while - and I breathe a sigh of releif to know that it's only opendarwin closing shop.
I don't buy it either, but that's what the website says
http://www.wband.com/Gigabit_Ethernet.htm
While it's true that most of the market isn't concerned with power, that doesn't mean they aren't painting themselves into a corner. Power consumption is one factor, but as these cards require huge ammounts of power, they also need to dissapate huge ammounts of heat.
Now to play the latest games you need a minum requirement for a card that requires a leaf blower attached to cool it. So lets see here, they've got power hungry computers, that are loud as hell to power PC games that are starting to struggle with stagnation. Each one of those might just be enough to shave off another fraction of the people willing to put up with it. Now hardcore gammers will again spend any ammount of money and put up with any ammount of heat their computer puts off, but sooner or later the industry may have to wake up and realize that although hardcore gamers give them a lot of money; with their astronomical development costs (and only getting more expensive) they need to bring in regular people who might not be willing to put up with it.
Now with all that said, and considering that I doubt the nextgen Nintendo will use a fraction of the power, will probably be near silent, and will be much less expensive - I might start taking a deeper look into things if I were the PC game industry (that industry being Software and Hardware together).